Tag: Conference Coverage
Expanding Community Benefits Agreements to Events
Shelterforce spoke with Race Forward’s Leslie Grant-Spann to find out what it means to have a community benefits agreement for an event, and why it’s important to think about the local impacts of large events.
On Optimism and Space: The Reclaiming Vacant Properties Conference
Before 2016’s first presidential debate plunged into birtherism and beauty pageants and Donald Trump ran into a wall of...
Engaging Banks–And Fighting Them at the Same Time
John Taylor, the President of the National Community Reinvestment Coalition (NCRC), proudly told me that NCRC’s Annual Conference is...
Awardees Honored at NLIHC 2012
The National Low Income Housing Coalition gave out a number of its annual awards this morning at its annual...
Four Kinds of Concentrated Areas of Poverty
In a fair housing workshop yesterday at the National Low Income Housing Coalition's annual conference Sara Pratt of HUD's Office of Fair...
Fair Housing News from NLIHC 2012
The much-anticipated new Affirmatively Furthering Fair Housing rule is not yet out, and probably won't be available for comment for...
The Just City
Yesterday was the second of three, day-long symposia being held this year by the Ford Foundation to celebrate its 75h anniversary. This one, subtitled...
Sustainability: Still a Novel Idea
I had an exchange with an acquaintance about a recent tweet we put out when we were covering the fourth annual summit of the...
Not Just Affordable Housing, but Connections to Neighborhoods
Shelley Poticha, director of HUD’s Office of Sustainable Housing and Community Development, speaking at NACEDA’s annual summit, outlined two main grant programs in HUD’s...
In Supporting Financial Protection Bureau, Merkley Looks Back
U.S. Sen. Jeff Merkley (D-Ore.) addressed a roomful of renters, housing advocates, and practitioners today as he called for increased protections for consumers, including...